Word: tuscolana
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...rent-free residence for his seven-year term will be the Quirinal Palace, former home of Italy's kings. It is a huge, drafty place, full of heavy furniture, and President Einaudi feared that he would miss the simplicity of his snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued his first orders...
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